Abstract
A growing number of advanced scientific and technical applications require significant computing power both to develop results and to display those results in comprehensible form. The most effective approach for such applications has been to perform the necessary computations on supercomputers, maniframes, or minisupercomputers, and then to transport the outputs to a graphics workstation that can display the results, statically or dynamically, as three-dimensional graphics. However, current hardware and software technologies have enabled development of a new class of single-user workstation that provide these capabilities in a single platform.
This paper provides an overview of architecture of one such machine, the Titan-III.
Zusammenfassung
Eine wachsende Zahl von fortschrittlichen wissenschaftlichen und technischen Anwendungen erfordern hohe Rechenleistung sowohl zur Berechnung als auch zur verständlichen Darstellung der Ergebnisse. Die effektivste Methode für solche Anwendungen bestand darin, die nötigen Berechnungen auf Supercomputern, Mainframes oder Mini-Supercomputern durchzuführen und anschließend die Resultate zu Graphic Workstations zu liefern, die diese dann statisch oder dynamisch als 3D-Graphiken anzeigten.
Die derzeitige Hardware- und Software-Technologie hat die Entwicklung einer neuen Klasse von Single-user Workstations ermöglicht, die diese Fähigkeiten auf einer Ebene ermöglichen.
Dieser Bericht liefert einen Überblick der Architektur einer solchen Maschine, der Titan-III.
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Dedicated to Professor W. L. Miranker on the occasion of his 60th birthday
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Miranker, G.S. Titan III supercomputer architectural overview. Computing 48, 39–59 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02241705
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